Hayek's Challenge

图书信息

作者	Caldwell, Bruce
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226091921
出版时间	2008-05-12
字数	105.5万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell-editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek-understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal social theorist.Caldwell begins by providing the necessary background for understanding Hayek's thought, tracing the emergence, in fin-de-sicle Vienna, of the Austrian school of economics-a distinctive analysis forged in the midst of contending schools of thought. In the second part of the book, Caldwell follows the path by which Hayek, beginning from the standard Austrian assumptions, gradually developed his unique perspective on not only economics but a broad range of social phenomena. In the third part, Caldwell offers both an assessment of Hayek's arguments and, in an epilogue, an insightful estimation of how Hayek's insights can help us to clarify and reexamine changes in the field of economics during the twentieth century.As Hayek's ideas matured, he became increasingly critical of developments within mainstream economics: his works grew increasingly contrarian and evolved in striking-and sometimes seemingly contradictory-ways. Caldwell is ideally suited to explain the complex evolution of Hayek's thought, and his analysis here is nothing short of brilliant, impressively situating Hayek in a broader intellectual context, unpacking the often difficult turns in his thinking, and showing how his economic ideas came to inform his ideas on the other social sciences.Hayek's Challenge will be received as one of the most important works published on this thinker in recent decades.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The Austrian School and Its Opponents—Historicists, Socialists, and Positivists

1. Menger’s Principles of Economics

2. The German Historical School

3. The Methodenstreit

4. Max Weber and the Decline of the Historical School

5. Positivism and Socialism

II. Hayek’s Journey

6. Hayek in Vienna

7. Monetary Theory and Methodology

8. Hayek at the London School of Economics

9. Some Methodological Debates of the 1930s

10. “Economics and Knowledge” and Hayek’s Transformation

11. The Abuse of Reason Project

12. Individualism and the Sensory Order

13. Rules, Orders, and Evolution

III. Hayek’s Challenge

14. Journey’s End—Hayek’s Multiple Legacies

15. Epilogue: A Meditation on Twentieth-Century Economics

Appendix A: A Translation of Schmoller’s Review of Menger’s Principles

Appendix B: Continuity versus Change in Hayek’s Economics in the 1930s

Appendix C: Hayek’s Transformation Redux

Appendix D: The “Scientism” Essay as Rorschach Test

Bibliography

Index